The University Of Louisville Board Of Trustees has endorsed a letter of intent that marks the next level of planning for a merger among UofL, University of Louisville Hospital/James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare, Catholic Health Initiatives and its Kentucky-based operation, Saint Joseph Health System. Over the past three weeks, the governing boards of the other organizations approved similar motions.

Raising $750 million is no small task, but that's the goal the University of Louisville has set for its comprehensive fundraising campaign, "Charting Our Course: The Campaign for Kentucky's Premier Metropolitan Research University."

Throughout this week in honor of Veterans Day and those men and women who have served or are serving our country, UofL Today has focused on student and employee veterans and ways in which the university assists them.

University of Louisville students' photography work with children in Panama will be showcased in an exhibit that opens Nov. 3 during the free, public Celebration of Panamanian Independence Day, which will include talks about the project and a tribute to workers who died building the Panama Canal.

The complexities of treating and interacting with a variety of patient populations whose lifestyles and beliefs may be very different from those of the health provider will be examined at an annual symposium hosted by the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center.